-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Dear list members,
today the French newspaper Le Monde published information on a secret NSA program, MORECOWBELL [0], that reveals the agency has been using the DNS infrastructure to monitor host and website activity across the Internet. This monitoring also enable Battle Damage Indication [1], a military term to say in this case that DNS activity is indicative of physical damage at a geographic location, and thus can be used to determine whether a target has been destroyed, in the case the bad guys' government didn't already shut it down themselves, so that the good guys can "repeat the attack". Peer-to-peer name systems using pTLDs effectively protect the Internet infrastructure by removing authoritarian censorship as well as attack vectors leading to physical destruction of servers. To serve resilient names and protect the safety of fellow sysadmins in exposed datacenters, to give a different beat to the Internet: please support P2P Names. Here is draft-04: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names/ As always, you criticism and constructive feedback are very welcome! If you tweet, please use the #P2PNames hashtag. Thank you for you attention, == hk [0] MORECOWBELL, the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UXHiPWrZxg If you ever witnessed an actual cow herd, you know that we don't need "more cow bell", but more cows, as music comes with many bells, not a bully rhythm from a single one. [1] http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/visuel/2015/01/24/cowbells-nouvelles-revelations-sur-les-pratiques-de-la-nsa_4561547_3234.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJUw7bVXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRFQ0IyNkIyRTNDNzEyMTc2OUEzNEM4ODU0 ODA2QzM2M0ZDMTg5ODNEAAoJEEgGw2P8GJg9mM4P/ipVNe+7BDlr1YUue2OKeP0F YxnFBqMluHApymoc4tc58R1+h8QmVKIkRw0qi8Ebv+eOOgK64fogGyTMVsPeQwmD duNfVxijB3/5TtuFTK3/uk3o3CsN3ttQX33OreOG/IqFsShZGZHW3RNJikwaKJ9B 8lkjqrF/9oravmHBCz5LCwDH//FJfrHNhCL1OVtox0up7mj9p9DC6VBbJ+HBqs+H PJGS5fG0jJJhLRPUfSW6uzOPKk+N19sJ/0u2mG0RLIp4RKUaqFZ9AF6MEv50BKi6 bwa+Q+mPKnTlPfmGTlR9yy5Klr8q/MQPbk8xV9yO2T4N/GFi4QK7BZ5g76Zlz1nw IcNCQUrNmygswntQ/bL8p+QCl98A9HO7D+t/ykAXeutWAoXgshndVbHFX/Id7sm+ t1QluaR6RPEAZc9P59rRW4NggRWU9eOqZXkg3cpCCyul42dql7Cj4Qqp85fTi0of nVwGDYo4BgWMyL661ndYQ6+EuVLOqhx5RGuQmDXN5s7zUKhSi1ORbbJTFCFwsjY3 zjyZRJZaiGYEAsDSFEqiGFzELdx2w2S9XwAZ3K61vKbpBd2qmAJEaIA4QFbGup5M OGpKc6j95YHG41cT9zwgTxm9AFBTY7Z+aAX7SzMsvaTJimZoX7/wy2WUUbFDxNg6 GXp8cGpXQujwCR4GoWKM =Byj3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop